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| The Wild Goose (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies) |  | Authors: Ogai Mori, Burton Watson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: $39.29
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1586247
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 166
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 093951270X
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6342
EAN: 9780939512706
ASIN: 093951270X
Publication Date: November 1995
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| Customer Reviews:
Poor Goose February 9, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a wonderful little book and like many other Japanese novels such as Junichiro Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters very litle seems to actually happen. The thing it alot does happen One just has to search for the happenings in the elegent words of Mori Ogai. At first it seems that the main character of the book is the Narrator's best friend Okada who is a wel liked medical student. we soon learn that Okada has been noticed by and is noticing a beautiful woman named Otama who is in fact a mistress of Suezo a money lender. The main character, however, seems to be Otama. We see her gpoo through evert day trying to figure out how to talk the man she loves. It is pretty much that simple, but the reader is deeply affected by this book. I know I was, and i'll never eat makerel boiled in miso
Zero Reciprocity February 22, 1999
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
One small incident CAN be made into an entire novel, as Ogai Mori shows us here. The actual action in The Wild Goose is quite small, even insignificant. But the way Ogai informs us of every thought of every character more than makes up for it. What I found to be truly compelling was the point of view -- the narrator is the best friend of Okada, one of the main characters. Just when it appears that the narrator knows way too much about what Otama (the girl) was thinking, he goes and leaves us with a mystery at the end that brings about what I thought was excellent closure. I would say that the main theme of this novel is "zero reciprocity" -- those of the characters who are in love are never truly loved back, like Otama, who silently longs for Okada, or even Suezo, the man who has taken Otama for his mistress. In this novel, people lie, people cheat, people hide the truth. And people never say what they truly feel. Just like real life. An excellent story.
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